Terms and Conditions of Use for the NanoRem Web Site

You may make use of this web site
(hereinafter referred to as the NanoRem web site) on these terms and conditions.
You should read these terms and conditions carefully before you start to use the NanoRem web site, as these terms and conditions will apply to
your use of the web site.
By accessing the NanoRem web site, you accept these terms and conditions and agree to comply with them. If you do not accept or agree to these terms and conditions, you must not use this web site.

Information About Us

http://www.nanorem.eu is a site operated by r3 Environmental Technology Ltd ("we, us, our"). We are registered in England and Wales under company number 03231566 and have our registered office at 88 Balmore Drive, Caversham, Reading, Berks, RG4 8NN, which is also our main trading address. You can contact us by submitting your query through our electronic enquiry form http://www.nanoren.eu/contactform.aspx or calling us on the number provided in the contact details box below.

NanoRem Web Site Producers

r3 Environmental Technology Ltd enters into this contract for and on behalf of itself and the other NanoRem project team members and are hereinafter referred to as the "NanoRem web site producers".
The members of the NanoRem project team and their role in the component parts of the NanoRem project (Work Packages) are set out in the Schedule to these Terms and Conditions:

EC Disclaimer

Various NanoRem web site producers received funding from the European Commission in the 5th, 6th and 7th Framework Programmes. The Commission is not responsible and accepts no responsibility for the content of the publications on the NanoRem website, which does not represent the opinion of the Commission. The Commission is not responsible for any use that might be made of data appearing in the NanoRem website.
Information on this site

The NanoRem web site producers have used reasonable endeavours to ensure that information contained on this site is correct, however, it is possible the information may be incomplete, contain errors or be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it.

Changes are periodically added to the information on the NanoRem web site. The NanoRem web site producers may make improvements and/or changes in the information, layout and software of the NanoRem web site at any time.
Accessing and using this site

There is no guarantee that the NanoRem web site, or any content on it, will always be available or be uninterrupted. Access to the site is permitted on a temporary basis and may be suspended, withdrawn, discontinued or changes to all or any part of the site without notice. The NanoRem web site producers will not be liable for any reason if the site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary to have access to the NanoRem web site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection, or whom you provide information to from this web site are aware of these terms of use and other applicable terms and conditions, and that they comply with them.

You may use our site only for lawful purposes. By accepting these terms and conditions you agree that you may not use our site:

In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation;

In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;

For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way;

To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any unlawful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic or profane material, or that otherwise degrades or intimidates an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age or disability or any other material which could give rise to any civil or criminal liability;

To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam); and

To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely affect the operation of any computer software or hardware.

No Warranties and limitation of liability

The NanoRem web site producers make no representations about your access and use of the NanoRem web site or the suitability of the information contained in the documents and related graphics published on the NanoRem web site for any purpose. All such documents and related graphics are provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. Visitors to the site or persons who are provided with information from the NanoRem web site (hereinafter referred to as users) should verify any information obtained from the site before acting upon it. Any decision or action taken by users on the basis of information provided on or via the NanoRem web site is at the user's sole discretion and risk. In particular, the information contained on this site should not be construed as technical advice for dealing with the management of any particular contaminated land site or area or waste or risk management activity or situation. Users are advised to use the information contained herein purely as a guide and to take appropriate professional advice where necessary.

All other warranties, terms and conditions, whether express or implied, statutory or otherwise relating to the access and use of the NanoRem website or the information and material on this site or sites accessed through this site are excluded to the extent permitted by law. If you are a business user, the NanoRem web site producers accept no liability for direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind (including without limitation loss of profits) arising from any use of the information and material contained on this site or any site that may be accessed through the NanoRem web site, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of software, documents, provision of or failure to provide services, or information available from the NanoRem web site.

If you are a consumer user please note that we only provide our site for domestic and private use. You agree not to use our site for any commercial or business purposes and the NanoRem web site producers have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity. Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of the exclusions and limitations in these terms and conditions are intended in any way to exclude or limit the NanoRem web site producers liability to you for fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited by English law.

Viruses

The NanoRem web site producers make no representation that this site is free from computer viruses, malware or other harmful components. Users accept that accessing the internet and the NanoRem website may put users' computers at risk of viruses and malware.
Users are responsible for configuring their own information technology, computer programmes, virus protection software and platform in order to access the NanoRem web site and they do so at their own risk. The NanoRem website producers accept no responsibility for transmitting or otherwise passing viruses to users' computers whether by negligence or howsoever caused.
Users shall not transmit or upload viruses or other harmful components or attempt to gain unauthorised access to the NanoRem website. In the event of such a breach, the users right to use the NanoRem web site will cease immediately, and NanoRem web site producers will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and co-operate with those authorities by disclosing the users identity to them.

Intellectual Property Rights and Permission to use Documents

The Nanorem website producers are the owners of or have the right to licence all intellectual property rights in the NanoRem web site and in the material published on it. Elements of the NanoRem web site are protected by copyright and other laws and may not be copied or imitated in whole or in part. No logo, graphic, sound, programming script or image from the NanoRem web site may be copied or retransmitted unless expressly permitted by r3 Environmental Technology Ltd. All such rights are reserved.

Permission to use NanoRem web site producers' documents (such as papers, reports, training materials) from the NanoRem web site is limited to downloading and making one file copy and one hard copy for the user's own research or private study. The status of the NanoRem web site producers (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged. Further reproduction, electronic or otherwise, or distribution is prohibited and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video and other sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text. The aforementioned permission does not extend to copying third party documents (or any other information) accessed via links which appear on this site. Should users wish to make copies of third party information, they are advised to contact the appropriate third party and obtain their permission.

The documents specified above do not include the design or layout of the NanoRem web site or programming script that is used within it. These may not be used by users in any way other than in using the NanoRem web site itself.

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you home made.

Links

This site contains links which will let users leave the NanoRem web site and proceed to third party sites. These sites are beyond the control of the NanoRem web site producers, who accept no responsibility for the content of these third party sites. The NanoRem web site producers are not responsible for webcasting or any other form of transmission received from any linked site. The NanoRem web site producers are providing these links to users only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by the NanoRem web site producers of the linked site. Users acknowledge that the NanoRem web site producers will not be a party to any contract with a third party site that users enter into and NanoRem web site producers shall not be liable to users in respect of any loss or damage suffered by users when using those web sites. Users are responsible for viewing and abiding by the terms of use that use of the linked sites may be subject to. For your information, linked sites may also collect your personal information on different terms to those set out in the Privacy Policy set out below.

Users may link to the home page of the NanoRem web site, provided it is done in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage NanoRem’s reputation or take advantage of it. Users must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on NanoRem’s part where none exists. Users must not establish a link to the NanoRem web site in any website that is not owned by the User. The NanoRem web site must not be framed on any other site,. NanoRem reserves the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.

User Accounts

This web site has an intranet area that is not open to the public. The Intranet is available to invited users who have been registered on the NanoRem system and have been set a password. These users will be referred to as User Account Holders.

User Accounts are not transferable and any entry made by a User Account Holder will be attributed to the name of that user.

User Account Holders shall treat their password (or any other piece of information that they are provided as part of the security procedures) as confidential.

User Accounts must be attributed to a single users email address. Group email addresses cannot be used with user accounts.

User Accounts have permissions that allow them access to various parts of the Intranet.

User Accounts and User Accounts Permissions can be amended or deleted without notification by the NanoRem website administrator.

Users requiring a User Account or a change to their account permissions should contact the NanoRem web site administrator

The NanoRem website producers have the right to disable any user name or password if in their reasonable opinion you have failed to comply with any provision of these terms and conditions.

Information Posting
The web site contains areas where information can be freely posted by users who have been issued with a User Account.

Any and all material contributed to the NanoRem web site (contributions) by users must be accurate (where they state facts), be genuinely held (where they state beliefs) and comply with applicable law in the UK and any other country from which they are posted.

Users must not post or transmit to the NanoRem web site any contributions which:

Contain any material which is defamatory of any person;

Contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;

Is likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;

Is used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person;

Gives the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case; and

Advocates, promotes or assists any unlawful act such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.

In the event of a failure to comply with these terms and conditions, the users right to use the NanoRem web site will cease immediately, and if appropriate we may report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and co-operate with those authorities by disclosing the users identity to them. We may also take legal action against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.

The NanoRem web site producers accept no liability for direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind (including without limitation loss of profits) arising from any use of third party posted information that may be accessed through this site, whether in an action of contract, negligence or other tortious action, or arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of software, documents, provision of or failure to provide services, or information available from the third party posted information. The NanoRem web site producers are providing this third party information only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any third party Information does not imply endorsement by the NanoRem web site producers of that Information. NanoRem web site producers do not undertake any responsibility for nor have any control over the content of the information posted on this site, which shall remain the exclusive responsibility of those posting the information.
Users agree not to use the web site to advertise or promote their own products or services if they are unconnected or unrelated to the aims and interests of the NanoRem project.

NanoRem web site producers reserve their rights at their absolute discretion to immediately remove any information posted on the web board without notice and to terminate user's access to the web site's functions at any time, without notice, for any reason whatsoever.

The NanoRem web site producers may moderate any area of the website where users can post information (interactive areas) and will provide clear information to you about what form of moderation is used (including whether it is human or technical) and how you may contact the moderator, should a concern or difficulty arise. However, the NanoRem web site producers are under no obligation to oversee, monitor or moderate any interactive areas that are provided on our site, and NanoRem web site producers expressly exclude its liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive area by a user in contravention of our content standards, whether the interactive area is moderated or not.

By posting information, users agree to license third parties who have access to the site to reproduce user entries for the purposes and to the extent set out in the clause headed Intellectual Property Rights and Permission to Use Documents.

By posting information, users warrant and represent that the information is true and accurate to the best of their knowledge and that they own or otherwise control all of the intellectual property rights in the information submitted without limitation, all the rights necessary for users to provide, post, upload, input or submit information.

Indemnities

In the event of any claim being made against r3 Environmental Technology Ltd or against any members of the NanoRem project team or supplier projects as a result of breach of these terms and conditions by a user, the user undertakes to fully indemnify r3 Environmental Technology Ltd or any members of the NanoRem project team or supplier projects against all actions, claims, proceedings, damages and costs arising from or incurred by reason of a user's breach of these terms and conditions including those in relation to posting information, security and permission to use documents.

Privacy Policy

Our Privacy policy http://www.nanorem.eu/privacypolicy.aspx also applies to your use of the NanoRem website. It sets out the terms on which NanoRem web site producers process any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us. By using the NanoRem website, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.

General

Users of this site represent and warrant that they are at least 18 years of age and that all information that they submit is true and accurate. If users are acting as an agent they represent and warrant that they are duly authorised to legally bind the principal entity or person to all terms and conditions relating to use of this site and that you have made the entity or person you are acting for aware of them.

NanoRem will occasionally send out administrative or notification emails. However, NanoRem does not send out SPAM, (sometimes known as unsolicited emails), nor are our servers being used to send out SPAM. SPAM attributed to nanorem.eu originates from viruses such as W32.Sobig.F which are mass-mailing worms that send themselves to all the email addresses that they find on a host's system. These emails typically use fake FROM addresses. These addresses are arbitrarily picked from the internet and unfortunately they occasionally use the domains nanorem.eu.

Commercial bulk e-mail organisations (spammers) also use fake FROM address in order to circumvent anti-spam software.

By using this site or submitting your email addresses users accept that there is a possibility that users may receive SPAM, and that at present there is nothing NanoRem or its ISP can do about this. Users further agree not to use any information posted on the web site to send SPAM.

We reserve the right to amend these terms and conditions from time to time. All such changes shall take effect once they have been posted on the web site and users will have be deemed to have accepted any such changes by their use of the web site from such time. Please check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you.

This agreement confers benefits on each member of the NanoRem project team and is intended to be enforceable by each member by virtue of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999, except that this Agreement may be amended or varied at any time by us without the consent of the project team members.

Each provision of these terms and conditions shall be construed separately and independently of each other and the validity of any one part shall not affect the validity of any other part.

This site is created and controlled by r3 Environmental Technology Ltd in England on behalf of the NanoRem project team and the laws of England and Wales shall apply to these terms and conditions its subject matter and its format on (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) and any disputes arising in connection with the use of this web site. All disputes arising in connection with this web site shall be submitted to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of England and Wales. However, if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

If you have any questions about these terms and conditions our privacy policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with NanoRem, you can contact NanoRem by submitting an email to paul@r3environmental.co.uk or calling +44 118 3788164 or writing to either of the following address as appropriate.

Design, Improvement and Optimized Production of Nanoparticles - Non-ZVI and Composite Nanoparticles

WP 4

Mobility and Fate of Nanoparticles

WP 5

Environmental Impact of Reactive Nanoparticles

WP 6

Analytical Methods for In-situ Determination of Nanoparticles Fate

WP 7

Modelling Tool for Nanoparticle Mobility and Interaction with Contaminants

WP8

Up-scaling, Risk and Sustainability

WP9

Dissemination, Dialogue with Stakeholders and Exploitation

WP10

Pilot Site Applications and Field Demonstrations

WP11

Administrative and Financial Project Management

Taking Nanotechnological Remediation Processes from Lab Scale to End User Applications for the Restoration of a Clean Environment.
This project has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement No. 309517